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Rust under their number 35 3h, and one female and male returned 

 (paratypes g and A). 



Type. Cut. No. 18374, U.S.N.M. 



22. APHYCUS PULVINARIAE Howard. 



Figs. 15, 23 43. 

 Aphycus puhinariae HOWARD Rep. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric., 1881, p. 365. 



Female. Front and vertex about twice to two and one-fourth 

 times as long as wide; ocelli in an acute-angled triangle, the posterior 

 pair about one-fourth to one-half their own diameter from the eye 

 margin; antenna! scrobes shallow and rather broad; eyes moderately 

 to rather thickly pubescent, the pile very short and fine. Antennal 

 scape varying from somewhat less than one-half to about one-third as 

 wide as long, widest near the middle and usually a little wider than 

 the club; pedicel about as long as the first three funicle joints com- 

 bined; first four funicle joints subequal in length, the last two 

 a little longer, first three hardly wider than long, the succeeding 

 joints increasingly wider, the sixth about twice as wide as the first; 

 club oval, bluntly rounded at apex, about one-fourth wider than the 

 last funicle joint and as long as the last four combined. Wings uni- 

 formly ciliated; oblique hairless streak narrowed above and inter- 

 rupted below, the cut-off portion indistinctly connecting with the 

 basal hairless streak. Length, 0.75 to 1.1 mm. 



Front, vertex and mesonotum orange yellow; face, cheeks, upper 

 rim and sides of occiput, collar of pronotum, tegulae and underparts 

 pale yellowish, the collar with a blackish brown dot on each corner, 

 and the tegulae with a pale brown spot on the posterior margin; con- 

 cealed part of the occiput and pronotum, the metanotum, propodeum, 

 and dorsum of abdomen brown to blackish brown, the sides of the 

 latter narrowly to broadly pale yellowish, or the metanotum, propo- 

 deum, dorsum of abdomen and most of the occiput may vary to 

 entirely yellowish. Antennal scape black with the base and apex 

 more or less broadly and a narrow line on the dorsal margin white; 

 base of pedicel, first two to four funicle joints and club black or 

 blackish brown, the apex of club often paler or even yellowish; 

 rest of antenna yellowish white. Legs pale yellowish; tibiae with 

 two pairs of dots near base and at middle, or with only the basal pair, 

 rarely with none, the dots when present varying from brown to 

 blackish; tip of the last joint of the tarsi blackish. Wings hyaline, 

 the veins pale brownish. 



Male. Front and vertex about one-half longer again than wide; 

 ocelli in an equilateral triangle or nearly so. Antennae much as in 

 the female, but the scape narrower, hardly expanded in the middle, 

 about four times longer than wide, and the club smaller or about as 

 long as the last three funicle joints. Length, 0.5 to 0.8 mm. 



